My New Build

[FastFord58]

Viper1 said:

FastFord58 said:

I just built a similar system:

i7 940

Rampage ii mobo

6GB ddr3 1600mhz

GTX 285 OC

Cosmos 1000 case

Corsair 1000 W PS

The Rampage 2 actually overclocks the cpu automatically, it's hilarious. I'm typically running active cores on the i7 at 3.2 to 3.3 Ghz without tweaking.

I run Crysis on a stock cfg with 8x AA at 1600x1250 (or somehting like that) with everything at max at butter framerates. Damn that game is gorgeous...sorry KZ2, as pretty as you are, you're late to the graphics party by 2 years.

 

Enjoy your rig. I've been out of PC gaming for like 6 years, and I can't imagine why now that I have got back into it.

The Intel i7's overclock themselves.  That's not your motherboard doing that.    When the temps and voltages fall low enough, the chip will shut down some of the unused cores and overclock the remaining core/s.  Nice build.

Ah, cool. Didn't know that. I still lag a bit on the new tech. This is the first PC build I have done in about 6 years.